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To Texas with love: patriotism, pride, and “bins”

guest columnists January 31, 2014

I've been asked to write this column as I, and I quote, "have interesting opinions and an international perspective on things." So, we'll see how this goes. First things first: I'm Callum, a first-year...

Post-college things to know

guest columnists January 24, 2014

I've been out of college for two years and there are a lot of things I wish I could have said to me six years ago, but can't. Yeah, articles exist like this, but they're easy things: "experiment!" Look,...

Learn your crap detection skills now

Cynara Medina January 24, 2014

"Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him." "” Ernest Hemingway I was a teenager when I first came across that quote from Hemingway. He was speaking about the...

Editorial: Fight the frost

Editorial Staff January 24, 2014

The beginning of second semester is a weird time in any college student's life. If you are a first year, you might be emerging from the haze of first semester into the harsh reality of academic life. You...

The culture of surveillance

Cynara Medina December 6, 2013

Last week, Elan Gale's flight was delayed, and he was annoyed, not because of the delay, but because of Diane in 7A. According to Gale,  Diane was abusive to the flight attendants, obnoxious and just...

Holiday cheer: obnoxious, uncomfortable, overrated

Lauren Schroeter December 6, 2013

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who absolutely hates the holidays. Of course, being the only vocal nonbeliever in a family of absolute nuts, it's not really hard to believe.  But I still participate...

Say “˜No’ to predatory culture and Stand in Solidarity

Carlos Anchondo November 22, 2013

Thank you to everyone who attended Stand in Solidarity on Nov. 20 at Miller Fountain. At the event, students were encouraged to share thoughts on immigration reform and write on a poster (currently in...

Work hard to get the grades you deserve

David Crockett November 22, 2013

With just two weeks of classes left, it's time to turn our attention to that enduring ritual of the end of semester: student evaluations. While I've got no personal gripe with these things, I have to confess...

Editorial: History Lessons

Editorial Staff November 22, 2013

50 years ago today, on another brisk Friday morning, a gunman shot and killed our nation's 35th president. In the following 50 years, the United States refused to let John F. Kennedy's violent end define...

Taking a step back to work

Lauren Schroeter November 22, 2013

I've been trying to write a story for several months now, but the problem seems to be that I don't quite know what to write about.  I know I want to write - I can recognize that feeling - but I just cannot...

The Gift of Giving

Coleen Grissom November 22, 2013

On the one hand, material gifts have never been particularly important to me.  Sure this is the result, in part, of having been born during the Great Depression and experiencing childhood during the Second...

Editorial: Vote, eat, drink and cheer

Editorial Staff November 15, 2013

If you can't find something to do on Trinity's campus or in the surrounding neighborhoods this weekend, then we can only assume that the folio shelves in the bottom of the library closed on you a couple...